Meet the Gen Z college students who turned Excel into a competitive esport—they’re competing in spreadsheet challenges and it’s helping them land jobs

Beyond the novelty of being a spreadsheet master, participants and sponsors say Excel esports offers something more ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Students “excel” at Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge Regional Competition

On Sunday, April 6, the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC) Regional Competition was hosted at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Organized by MECC ...
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Pretoria student wins global Excel esports competition

Pieter Pienaar, an MCom Accounting Sciences student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been named the winner of the 2025 Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC), which was held alongside the ...
The Escapist

“It’s Disneyland for nerds”: Microsoft Excel World Championship CEO Andrew Grigolyunovich tells us what it takes to turn an everyday office task into a full-fledged ...

The Microsoft Excel World Championship initially got our attention for getting caught in the crossfire of an ongoing debate: Is Excel an esport? However, we’ve now become hooked. I don’t know how to ...
ExtremeTech

Excel All-Stars Do Battle in Esports Competition

Esports has an exciting new genre, and it’s probably miles from what you think it is. The Financial Modeling World Cup (FMWC(Opens in a new window)), a competition that bases games on financial case ...
The Verge

Excel’s esports revolution is coming back to ESPN this week

Can the next big thing in gaming be... spreadsheets? It might be more plausible than you think. Can the next big thing in gaming be... spreadsheets? It might be more plausible than you think. is ...